Cohere Catalyst Grants give free API credits to public-benefit and research projects

Cohere Labs runs Catalyst Grants to give researchers and public-impact teams access to Cohere's models through the Cohere API.

What you get

• Cohere API credits, sized per project.
• Credits apply automatically to model usage with a Production API key, and you can track the balance in the Billing tab of your Cohere dashboard.
• You can invite collaborators from the Team tab, even outside your institution. If you run out, you can email Cohere to request more.

Who can apply

Academic partners and civic or public-impact organizations whose projects are for public benefit or open science. Focus areas include education, healthcare, culture and sustainability, plus research on model safety, bias and hallucinations, multilingual performance, retrieval and efficiency, and values alignment.

If your work covers AI safety, you need to disclose vulnerabilities to Cohere right away and share papers or datasets with Cohere Labs at least four weeks before publication. Other research doesn't need approval before publishing.

How to apply

Submit your project through the Catalyst Grants application. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Focus areas and FAQs are on the Catalyst Grants page.